In a move that would significantly reduce the annual reporting burden on banks, the Federal Reserve today proposed to automate non-merger-related adjustments to member banks’ subscriptions to Reserve Bank capital stock.
In response to shifting market dynamics and increasing competition in the financial services industry, the Federal Reserve is contemplating changes to its framework for antitrust analysis, Fed Governor Michelle Bowman told attendees at the American Bankers Association’s virtual Conference for Community Bankers today.
By streamlining their anti-money laundering operations, banks will not only maintain their defenses, but also their market share.
Expect the 2021 M&A environment to be shaped on the one hand by long-running pressures to sell balanced on the other hand by concerns about post-pandemic asset quality, the strengths of banks’ core businesses and valuation mismatches.
The crystal ball for 2021 might be statistically clear, but looking behind the numbers reveals competing pressures for and against continued industry consolidation.
The FDIC today released a large-scale Community Banking Study that examines community bank performance between year-end 2011 and year-end 2019.
The American Bankers Association today urged the Department of Justice to reexamine how it defines geographic markets in its guidelines for reviewing competitive effects of bank mergers and acquisitions, saying they currently “fail to account for significant competition in many product lines, especially in many rural markets.”
Business conditions were most often called the single biggest challenge facing community banks, according to an annual survey released yesterday by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
In recent years, high-profile class action settlements have been criticized for delivering little to no monetary relief to plaintiffs, instead, providing coupons, injunctive relief or “cy pres” relief in which the defendant makes charitable donations, while making large fee awards to attorneys.
Noting the rapid technological transformation of financial services, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division today requested public comments on whether and how it should revise its guidelines—virtually unchanged since 1995—for reviewing the competitive effects of bank mergers.